If not them, who? I don’t know of any project that comes close to Wikipedia, and as someone who doesn’t know anything about their internal politics (although I’m open to learn), I feel like it would be a bigger tragedy if it went under. It seems to benefit from being independently funded instead of either being absorbed by some corporation with other motives, or being replaced by a product from some corporation.
There was a great graph which I cannot find about how Wikimedia (Wikipedia owners) is hoarding massive amounts of money and doing unnecessary fundraisers. Their capital has bloated to infinity. Wikimedia already is a corporation.
To top it off their owners are Zionists who tried to use their influence to stop the Wikipedia page calling Gaza a genocide but failed.
I read through the page and I understand the problem better, but I still don’t know what I could do differently as an occasional donator. I found this for helping with development, but I’d prefer to support with donations since I don’t really have time for more dev work. Is there some way to donate directly for the operating costs, or to volunteers, or something?
Wikipedia is flooded with donations. They are super corrupt. Do not give them more money.
If not them, who? I don’t know of any project that comes close to Wikipedia, and as someone who doesn’t know anything about their internal politics (although I’m open to learn), I feel like it would be a bigger tragedy if it went under. It seems to benefit from being independently funded instead of either being absorbed by some corporation with other motives, or being replaced by a product from some corporation.
Here is an article about the issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising/issues
There was a great graph which I cannot find about how Wikimedia (Wikipedia owners) is hoarding massive amounts of money and doing unnecessary fundraisers. Their capital has bloated to infinity. Wikimedia already is a corporation.
To top it off their owners are Zionists who tried to use their influence to stop the Wikipedia page calling Gaza a genocide but failed.
I read through the page and I understand the problem better, but I still don’t know what I could do differently as an occasional donator. I found this for helping with development, but I’d prefer to support with donations since I don’t really have time for more dev work. Is there some way to donate directly for the operating costs, or to volunteers, or something?
Addition: I found the graph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer